The Tank in My Living Room

Gilbert Maebe PRESENTATION The Tank in my Living Room

have 62 aquaria in my ish room. One too hard to build a real biotope tank. But I of them has its main pane in the gave my tank some strong restrictions, so Idirection of my adjacent living room. only ish from Sahul will be in my tank. The measurements are length of 1,25 m, Sahul is the area of Australia and New height of 0,5 m and depth of 0,6 m (about Guinea, which were one landmass in the 5´ x 2´ x 2´). I don’t want to present you past. all my 62 tanks, my living room tank I chose to put ive different types of should be enough. plants into the aquarium. In addition I The BBAT (Belgium Association of putted a large piece of wood with some Fishkeeping and Herpetology) organized a moss planted on it, about 20 quite big rocks contest of home exhibition. As long I was and some smaller pieces of resinous wood. one of the judges I didn’t want to participate The ish-population was ive males and 3 at the contest. But in 2014 I quitted this job females (nearly mature) of Melanotaenia as a judge and so I was able to present my ajamaruensis, eight gobies Stiphodon tanks to the jury. It’s quite obvious, that the elegans, and a pair of Chilatherina spec. ish room of a former judge stands in the “Sungai Sermowai”, which I found focus of the competition and so I did my accidentally between some other purchased very best. rainbows. I also had some blue-eyes in it, 8 There were two ways to participate: one Pseudomugil gertrudae “Aru II” and 6 P. category is biotope and the other is luminatus, formerly known as Pseudomugil community tank. The choice for the cf. paskai “Red Neon”. To complete the community was done quickly because it’s stocking I putted in 6 Melanotaenia

© IRG – Internationale Gesellschaft für Regenbogenfische e.V. www.irg-online.de/rfe 97 boesemani “Danau Uter” with their I have three neon tubes directly over the plants, because I can remove some wooden Over the years the plants changed as beautiful red back. Somewhere between the tank (Philips 840) and a spotlight pointed panels easily. well. The back wall is completely covered plants 3 big Amano shrimp eat algae, on the root outside the tank. To my mind I feed my ishes once a day, except with Anubias barteri var. nana, the left side supported by some ramshorn snails. these lights (with colour temperature of Sunday, the day of fasting and relaxing! I with small growing javafern and the right Now, 1,5 years after the competition, 4000 K) emit very natural light, like feed bloodworm, white & black mosquito side with javamoss. In the lateral area I the aquarium is stocked with 3 males and 5 sunlight. They are switched on from 8 larvae, Artemia, krill, Mysis, Daphnia and planted some really nice Cryptocoryne females of Melanotaenia pygmaea from a.m. to 10 p.m. I use a Eheim ilter with a once a week lakes, all form Ocean ainis with fantastic hammered leaves. In Australia, 2 males and one female juveniles capacity of 350 l/h. The water outlet makes Nutrition. I add some frozen salad, spinach the centre of the aquarium the resinous of Chilatherina spec. “Unggalum” and a lot of movement on the surface, which or boiled carrots, all minced and intermixed wood is still located with Potamogeton spec. Melanotaenia utcheensis, respectively, 6 adds some oxygen to the water. There is with the other food. “Victoria”, (I am not 100 % sure if the name Melanotaenia praecox and to complete the no heater in the aquarium, because one Water changes of 70 to 80 litres are is correct). group of 8 Stiphodon elegans. side stands in contact to the living room made every two weeks. One half is And how went the Belgian national The main reason for the changing in the and the rest in the ish room. That ensures rainwater iltered with active carbon for at home aquaria competition? In the end, I population is that in this aquarium I can temperatures of 25 °C (about 77 °F) least 24 hours in a 150 l barrel in the ish won the third place with 90 of 100 points! take the best pictures of the ish. I can constantly over day and night. I do all room. The other half is cold tap water, I am really happy with the result. My darken the living room for less relection on maintenance from the living room side, as which let the temperature decrease to some congratulations are going to the two the aquarium glass. water changes, cleaning glass, shorten extent in the aquarium. participants ahead.

98 © IRG – Internationale Gesellschaft für Regenbogenfische e.V. www.irg-online.de/rfe © IRG – Internationale Gesellschaft für Regenbogenfische e.V. www.irg-online.de/rfe boesemani “Danau Uter” with their I have three neon tubes directly over the plants, because I can remove some wooden Over the years the plants changed as beautiful red back. Somewhere between the tank (Philips 840) and a spotlight pointed panels easily. well. The back wall is completely covered plants 3 big Amano shrimp eat algae, on the root outside the tank. To my mind I feed my ishes once a day, except with Anubias barteri var. nana, the left side supported by some ramshorn snails. these lights (with colour temperature of Sunday, the day of fasting and relaxing! I with small growing javafern and the right Now, 1,5 years after the competition, 4000 K) emit very natural light, like feed bloodworm, white & black mosquito side with javamoss. In the lateral area I the aquarium is stocked with 3 males and 5 sunlight. They are switched on from 8 larvae, Artemia, krill, Mysis, Daphnia and planted some really nice Cryptocoryne females of Melanotaenia pygmaea from a.m. to 10 p.m. I use a Eheim ilter with a once a week lakes, all form Ocean ainis with fantastic hammered leaves. In Australia, 2 males and one female juveniles capacity of 350 l/h. The water outlet makes Nutrition. I add some frozen salad, spinach the centre of the aquarium the resinous of Chilatherina spec. “Unggalum” and a lot of movement on the surface, which or boiled carrots, all minced and intermixed wood is still located with Potamogeton spec. Melanotaenia utcheensis, respectively, 6 adds some oxygen to the water. There is with the other food. “Victoria”, (I am not 100 % sure if the name Melanotaenia praecox and to complete the no heater in the aquarium, because one Water changes of 70 to 80 litres are is correct). group of 8 Stiphodon elegans. side stands in contact to the living room made every two weeks. One half is And how went the Belgian national The main reason for the changing in the and the rest in the ish room. That ensures rainwater iltered with active carbon for at home aquaria competition? In the end, I population is that in this aquarium I can temperatures of 25 °C (about 77 °F) least 24 hours in a 150 l barrel in the ish won the third place with 90 of 100 points! take the best pictures of the ish. I can constantly over day and night. I do all room. The other half is cold tap water, I am really happy with the result. My darken the living room for less relection on maintenance from the living room side, as which let the temperature decrease to some congratulations are going to the two the aquarium glass. water changes, cleaning glass, shorten extent in the aquarium. participants ahead.

Middle section of my aquarium under normal lighting and with spot light ( all photos G. Maebe).

© IRG – Internationale Gesellschaft für Regenbogenfische e.V. www.irg-online.de/rfe © IRG – Internationale Gesellschaft für Regenbogenfische e.V. www.irg-online.de/rfe 99 Pseudomugil gertrudae “AruI I “

▲ ▼ Melanotaenia ajamaruensis

Pseudomugil luminatus

100 © IRG – Internationale Gesellschaft für Regenbogenfische e.V. www.irg-online.de/rfe © IRG – Internationale Gesellschaft für Regenbogenfische e.V. www.irg-online.de/rfe Pseudomugil gertrudae “IAru I “

Pseudomugil luminatus

Melanotaenia pygmaea Chilatherina spec.“Sermowai“

Stiphodon elegans

102 © IRG – Internationale Gesellschaft für Regenbogenfische e.V. www.irg-online.de/rfe This paper has been published in:

Impressionen JHV 2016 gesehen von F.-P. Müllenholz Regenbogenfisch Jahrgang 31 Heft 3/2016 INHALT

88 Editorial

89 Blauaugen: Ein neuer Name für Pseudomugil cf. paskai „Red Neon“ Hans Herbert Boeck 97 Vorstellung: Mein Wohnzimmeraquarium Gilbert Maebe 103 Zucht und Aufzucht: Erfahrungen mit dem Gabelschwanzblauauge Jochen Ströbel 109 Sentani-Expedition: Chilatherina sentaniensis wiederentdeckt? Dirk Godlinski 112 Lebensraum: Neues von den Ajamaruseen Marten Luter Salossa 113 Technik: Gedanken zur LED-Beleuchtung – oder Strom sparen auf meine Art Hans Herbert Boeck

118 Vorschau und Impressum

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Titelbild: Pseudomugil gertrudae „Aru II“ (oben) und Pseudomugil luminatus (unten) im prämierten Wohnzimmeraquarium. Fotos: Gilbert Maebe

Heftrückseite: Fundort 2 von Pseudomugil luminatus. Foto: Andreas Wagnitz

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